In The Shadow of Hindu Art, India's G. Raman and Veerasanthanam

THE HINDU
By Sujataha Shankar Kumar

Tholu Bommalattam uses translucent leather puppets that are coloured or black
and white, their forms inspired by temple friezes. Photo: K. V. Srinivasan

INDIA---G. Raman and Veerasanthanam are two senior Chennai artists, who have merged Indian shadow puppetry, with its craft, tradition and mythology, into the scheme of painting with a wonderful effervescence. To any Indian, Veerasanthanam’s themes will strike familiar and easy chords — the sacred Kamadhenu, the exotic tree of life, two figures hugging a tree and environmental concerns; as do G. Raman’s extrapolations recalling traditional art, pastoral scenes or street-life as a pair of bards travelling. What’s common between them is the vivid and unabated use of colour and intensity of line work. [link]

ree of LIfe by Veerasanthanam